Cherry Servers

Cherry Servers is a bare metal cloud infrastructure provider that has become one of the largest dedicated hosting platforms for the Solana ecosystem. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Lithuania, the company has operated for over two decades and now provisions more than 30,000 servers annually. While Cherry Servers serves a broad range of compute workloads—including AI/ML, SaaS, trading systems, and game development—it has built a specialized track record serving Solana validators, RPC operators, and staking infrastructure providers, positioning itself as a preferred alternative to hyperscaler cloud platforms for performance-sensitive blockchain workloads.

What Cherry Servers Does

Cherry Servers provides dedicated bare metal servers, virtual private servers (VPS), and GPU servers delivered through an API-first platform with full root access and hardware-level control. Unlike cloud providers that run workloads on shared virtual machines, Cherry Servers leases physical hardware exclusively to each customer, eliminating noisy-neighbor resource contention—a critical advantage for Solana validators where latency variance directly affects block production competitiveness.

The company operates seven data centers across three continents: Lithuania (Vilnius), the Netherlands (Amsterdam), Germany (Frankfurt), Sweden (Stockholm), the United States (Chicago), Singapore, and Japan (Tokyo). Each location provides 10 Gbps uplinks with a 100G+ redundant backbone, and Solana plans include 100 TB of free monthly egress traffic.

Solana-Specific Infrastructure

Cherry Servers maintains dedicated Solana server tiers optimized for each major use case on the network:

Mainnet Agave Validator — AMD EPYC 9254P (24 cores, 2.9 GHz), 384 GB DDR5 RAM, 2×1 TB + 2×4 TB NVMe storage, priced at €711/month. This configuration targets the Agave client used by most current mainnet validators and meets the hardware requirements for competitive block production.

Mainnet Firedancer Validator — AMD EPYC 9354P (32 cores, 3.25 GHz), 384 GB DDR5 RAM, 2×1 TB + 2×4 TB NVMe, priced at €877/month. Firedancer, Jump Crypto's high-performance Solana client rewrite, demands higher CPU throughput and faster memory access; this tier is engineered to meet those requirements.

Large RPC Node — AMD Threadripper PRO 7975WX (32 cores, 4 GHz), 768 GB DDR5 RAM, priced at €1,249/month. RPC nodes serving end-user and application traffic require large memory footprints to hold the full account state in RAM and handle concurrent request load without performance degradation.

Archive Node — AMD EPYC 9355 (32 cores, 3.55 GHz), 384 GB DDR5 RAM, up to 64 TB NVMe storage, priced at €2,214/month. Archive configurations support operators that need to retain full transaction history, serving indexers, explorers, and analytics platforms.

All Solana plans use separated NVMe drives for the operating system, ledger, and accounts/snapshots, following Solana Foundation best-practice recommendations for storage isolation.

DoubleZero Network Partnership

Cherry Servers became an official contributor to DoubleZero, a purpose-built network layer for blockchain applications that routes traffic over dedicated fiber paths rather than the standard public internet. Cherry Servers has connected its four European data centers—Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Lithuania, and Stockholm—to the DoubleZero network, giving validators deployed on those nodes access to lower latency, reduced jitter, and higher throughput between Solana peers.

DoubleZero operates as a dedicated network infrastructure layer that bypasses common internet congestion points and reduces the packet variance that can cause validators to miss or delay block propagation. For Solana validators, where vote transaction timing affects staking rewards and leader schedules, even modest reductions in network jitter translate directly into improved performance. Cherry Servers bundles DoubleZero access with its Solana validator configurations, removing the need for operators to source network optimization separately.

Scale and Customers

Cherry Servers ranks among the top Solana server providers by staked SOL hosted on its infrastructure, with over $10 billion in SOL value represented across validators and staking operations running on its hardware. Verified customers in the Solana ecosystem include Everstake, StableLab, Stakin, Zeeve, ELSOUL LABO, StakeCraft, and Chainode Tech.

The relationship with Everstake—one of the largest professional staking operators in the industry—is documented in a published case study. Everstake began deploying Solana validator nodes on Cherry Servers infrastructure in mid-2024, choosing the provider for its bare metal performance, low-latency network positioning, and willingness to customize hardware configurations for blockchain-specific workloads. The collaboration has continued as a production environment and informed Cherry Servers' ongoing Solana server configuration recommendations.

StableLab, another verified customer, is reported to have reduced hosting costs by approximately 35% after migrating Solana infrastructure to Cherry Servers while achieving near-100% uptime and a 20% increase in infrastructure revenue.

Platform and Developer Tooling

Cherry Servers provides a fully API-driven control plane, allowing infrastructure to be provisioned, configured, and scaled programmatically. Supported integrations include a CLI tool, Python SDK, Go SDK, Ansible playbooks, and Terraform providers, enabling Solana operators to incorporate bare metal provisioning into automated deployment pipelines and infrastructure-as-code workflows.

Servers deploy in as little as 12 minutes for pre-configured instant models or within 24 to 72 hours for fully customized builds. Custom configurations can reach up to 1,152 GB RAM and 80 TB NVMe storage for specialized workloads exceeding standard Solana validator requirements.

Payment and Support

Cherry Servers accepts over 20 payment methods, including more than 15 cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, USDC, and others. This crypto-native billing removes friction for blockchain operators who hold treasury assets in digital currencies and prefer to pay infrastructure costs in kind.

Technical support is available around the clock via live chat, email, phone, Telegram, and Discord, with a stated average response time of 15 seconds. The company maintains an internal team with Solana-specific expertise capable of advising on validator configuration, Firedancer deployment, network optimization, and performance tuning for mainnet conditions.

Fit Within the Solana Ecosystem

Cherry Servers occupies the physical infrastructure layer that underpins Solana's validator decentralization. The network's throughput and performance demands—sub-400ms block times, high transaction volume, and validator-to-validator gossip requirements—make hardware quality and network positioning materially important factors for operators. By providing pre-validated hardware tiers for each Solana client type, connecting European nodes to the DoubleZero high-performance network, and staffing Solana-literate support engineers, Cherry Servers serves as a specialized hosting layer for the ecosystem's professional node operators.

The company does not issue its own token, operate smart contracts on Solana, or participate in on-chain governance. Its role is purely infrastructural: providing the physical compute and network substrate on which validators, RPC providers, and staking operators run their Solana software.